Welcome to the Bundles, Freebies, and Sales News, the weekly column at EN World that helps make sure you don’t miss out on big tabletop RPG bundles, charity fundraisers, and sales from around the internet.
Freebies and Pay What You Want
Note: While “Pay What You Want” downloads are available for free, please support the creators if you are able!
Modiphius released the supplement Mr. Fuzzy and The Goulish Remnants Rules Packet for the Fallout: Wasteland Warfare miniature skirmish roleplaying game. This is the first in a new collection of supplements that will include unit cards, profiles, faction cards, and scenarios for Fallout: Wasteland Warfare. Note this is for the roleplaying campaign rules supplement for the miniature game and not for the 2d20 System roleplaying game.
Avatar Legends: The RPG Quickstart is now out from Magpie Games featuring a 32-page condensed rulebook, five pre-generated characters, the adventure Storm Over Linsho, and tolls to get you started on your journey.
The superhero RPG Icons from Ad Infinitum Adventures also has a new Quickstart complete with rules, hero archetypes, and the adventure The I-Con Incident.
From the Genesys Foundry, Neil Cobb has Bounty of the Gaming Maw, an adventure for the HERO TIME high fantasy setting for the Genesys System. The skull-shaped structure The Gaping Maw has been located at last with the heroes hoping to survive the traps and monsters within to claim the lost treasure hidden inside.
Working Orders released Delve: The Freeform RPG Second Edition, the new update to the universal RPG. The game features a custom modifier system with a heavy emphasis on ease of play and unique character customization.
Fans of Mage: The Ascension will be interested in Corey White’s Alternate Mage: The Ascension Spheres with an alternate system of magic for the World of Darkness RPG featuring 12 Spheres divided into coincidental and vulgar magic that connect to astrology and the tarot.
Train Lightning has a new rules expansion for the Lancer RPG, Prototype Pattern Groups. This expansion for the mecha RPG includes eight new NPC classes, an NPC template, and optional rules for NPC heat and AI cascade.
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Patrick McDonald released Strange Backstreets, a collection of ten encounters with a strong roleplay focus for any urban campaign or adventure to add a bit of fey wildness to flesh out your game.
The first Lightning Round this week features gamemaster/DM resources like monsters, maps, random generators, one-page adventures, drop-in encounters, and more. All products are Free or pay what you want with the suggested price in parentheses.
The second Lightning Round features player resources like classes, subclasses, backgrounds, feats, races/species, and more. All products are Free or pay what you want with the suggested price in parentheses.
Bundles and Sales
Note: I have included end dates when listed for the following sales, but please be warned that those without published end dates may end suddenly so be sure to plan purchases accordingly.
Pre-order bundles are live for the 2024 update to the Dungeons & Dragon 5th Edition core rules. You can pre-order the books from Fantasy Grounds and Roll20 for digital editions and Amazon for the Player’s Handbook, Dungeon Master’s Guide, and Monster Manual for physical hardcovers.
Chaosium posted here on EN World about the sale on Call of Cthulhu Horror on the Orient Express. The two-volume hardcover adventure offers 19 scenarios across 700 pages following the investigators from London to Paris to Constantinople complete with a fold-out map of Europe and a PDF edition included for free.
Free League launched the Free League Summer Sale this week with discounts on Dragonbane, The One Ring, Lord of the Rings Roleplaying 5E, Blade Runner, ALIEN, Vaesen, Tales from the Loop, and more.
It’s KiwiRPG Week and there are currently two bundles collected by Kelly Whyte highlighting the work of RPG creators from New Zealand. The first KiwiRPG Week 2024 bundle is on DriveThruRPG and features over 30 products from original games, system-neutral expansions, an entire adventure path for Traveller, multiple zines, and more.
The second KiwiRPG Week 2024 bundle is over on Itch.io with 24 products ranging from zines to 5e classes to system-neutral expansions to full RPG systems to solo journaling games to publisher resources and more.
Charity Bundles and Sales
Itch.io has another of their huge charity bundles, this time organized by Jes the Human, with the TTRPGs for Palestine bundle. The bundle features a whoping 643 items like full RPG rules, mini- and micro-RPGs, solo journaling games, adventures, sourcebooks, optional rules, monster collections, maps, art assets, and probably anything you could possibly want in a TTRPG bundle.
Over on Bundle of Holding, the sci-fi 5e system Esper Genesis has a bundle from Alligator Alley Entertainment. The Starter Collection includes the Esper Genesis 5E Core Manual, Esper Genesis Master Technician’s Guide with equipment and vehicle rules expansions, and two Esper Genesis Initiate adventures. The Adventure Collection adds on the Esper Genesis Threats Database and ten adventures in the Shadow of the Zephyr series.
Goodman Games has a collection of the classic sci-fi RPG Metamorphosis Alpha. The Starter collection includes Metamorphosis Alpha 1e, three sourcebooks, and the adventures Death Ziggurat in Zero-G and Warden Adventures. The Bonus Collection adds up four more Warden Adventures, the campaign setting Epsilon City, and the adventure Doom on the Warden.
Catalyst Game Labs has a pair of bundles up for Shadowrun 5th Edition. Yes, this is the previous edition of the game, but it is one that’s still popular with many fans and a lot of Shadowrun content is evergreen or at least useful when playing other editions due to the setting information. The first of these bundles is set to get you ready to go with Shadowrun 5th Edition with the SR5 Essentials Bundle. The base level includes Shadowrun 5e, the player’s guide with additional options Run Faster, and the cyberware sourcebook Chrome Flesh. The Bonus Collection adds on additional “core sourcebooks” with optional rules and equipment that many players consider essential, Run & Gun (guns, armor, and combat), Street Grimoire (magic), Data Trials (hacking), and Rigger 5.0 (vehicles and drones).
The second bundle is the SR5 Missions Bundle with plenty of adventures and full campaigns. The Starter Collection includes the Seattle Sprawl Digital Box Set with information about the setting city of Seattle plus three standalone scenarios and four Missions convention scenarios. The Bonus Collection adds on the big metaplot events of the edition with five SRD CFD campaign sourcebooks (CFD being Cognitive Fragmentation Disorder, a personality disorder caused by nanite that became an epidemic in the 2070s) and a trilogy covering events in thee free city of Denver.
Over on Humble Bundle, the Maps Extravaganza Bundle is back with software tools to help you create your own maps. The first level gives you two map collections and a token collection worth grabbing even if you don’t want to make your own maps. The fun starts with the second tier with a one year license to Campaign Cartographer 3+ along with the book Tome of Ultimate Mapping so you can create your own fantasy maps for personal use or in your published commercial products along with Perspectives 3 software which offers map creation with an isometric perspective. The third tier adds on additional resources like Symbol Set 2: Fantasy Floorplans, Source Maps: Castles, and Source Maps: Temples, Tombs, and Catacombs. The top tier upgrades your Campaign Cartographer 3+ license to lifetime license and also gets you the City Designer 3 and Dungeon Designer 3 software so you have all the tools you need to make any sort of RPG map you can think of.
Fans of the Warhammer 40K universe who wants to go deeper into the lore will be pleased with the Worlds of Warhammer 40,000 Bundle from the Black Library. The base level includes eight novels including novels from Dan Arnett, Steve Lyons, Josh Reynolds, and more with the next level adding another eight novels while the top tier ups the total to 27 total books from The Horus Heresy, Age of Sigmar, and more.
Paizo, Humble, and Fantasy Grounds have extended the Pathfinder’s Finest 2e Fantasy Ground Experience Bundle. The base level of this bundle includes 3 months of Ultimate level access to the Fantasy Grounds along with the VTT packages the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Beginner Box, the adventures Little Trouble in Big Absalom and The Second Confirmation, and three map packs. The second level adds on the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Core Rulebook, Gamemastery Guide, Secrets of Magic, Lost Omens World Guide, and the Lost Omens Ancestry Guide, plus four more map/tile packs and two more adventures. The highest level includes an unlimited, permanent standard license to Fantasy Grounds Unity plus the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Bestiary, Bestiary 2, Lost Omens Character Guide, five more map packs, and the full campaign for Abomination Vaults.
If you’ve been curious about Delta Green, the Lovecraftian RPG that flips the script by giving the players the power to fight back, the Delta Green RPG Collection by Arc Dream Publishing is a perfect introduction. If you’re already a player, the base tier has the Agent Dossiers and Evidence Kit: God’s Teeth with pre-generated characters and hand-outs respectively. The second tier adds on the sourcebooks The Complex, Static Protocol, The Labyrinth, and ARCHINT. If you’re brand new to the game though, the top tier is how you get started with the player’s book Delta Green: Agent’s Handbook, the GM’s book Handler’s Guide, plus a dozen more sourcebooks, adventures, hand-outs, and more making a full library to jump into the world.
That’s all for this week! If you know of any bundles or sales starting soon, please contact me on the EN World Discord, tag me on Mastodon, or send me a message here on EN World. Discount percentages have been rounded to the nearest whole number and are based on the standard retail price provided by the site. Note: Links to Amazon, Humble Store, Humble Bundle, Fantasy Grounds, and/or DriveThruRPG may contain affiliate links with the proceeds going to the author of this column.
Freebies and Pay What You Want
Note: While “Pay What You Want” downloads are available for free, please support the creators if you are able!
Modiphius released the supplement Mr. Fuzzy and The Goulish Remnants Rules Packet for the Fallout: Wasteland Warfare miniature skirmish roleplaying game. This is the first in a new collection of supplements that will include unit cards, profiles, faction cards, and scenarios for Fallout: Wasteland Warfare. Note this is for the roleplaying campaign rules supplement for the miniature game and not for the 2d20 System roleplaying game.
- Price: Free
Avatar Legends: The RPG Quickstart is now out from Magpie Games featuring a 32-page condensed rulebook, five pre-generated characters, the adventure Storm Over Linsho, and tolls to get you started on your journey.
- Price: Free
The superhero RPG Icons from Ad Infinitum Adventures also has a new Quickstart complete with rules, hero archetypes, and the adventure The I-Con Incident.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)
From the Genesys Foundry, Neil Cobb has Bounty of the Gaming Maw, an adventure for the HERO TIME high fantasy setting for the Genesys System. The skull-shaped structure The Gaping Maw has been located at last with the heroes hoping to survive the traps and monsters within to claim the lost treasure hidden inside.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $3.95)
Working Orders released Delve: The Freeform RPG Second Edition, the new update to the universal RPG. The game features a custom modifier system with a heavy emphasis on ease of play and unique character customization.
- Price Free
Fans of Mage: The Ascension will be interested in Corey White’s Alternate Mage: The Ascension Spheres with an alternate system of magic for the World of Darkness RPG featuring 12 Spheres divided into coincidental and vulgar magic that connect to astrology and the tarot.
- Price: Free
Train Lightning has a new rules expansion for the Lancer RPG, Prototype Pattern Groups. This expansion for the mecha RPG includes eight new NPC classes, an NPC template, and optional rules for NPC heat and AI cascade.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $4.95)
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Patrick McDonald released Strange Backstreets, a collection of ten encounters with a strong roleplay focus for any urban campaign or adventure to add a bit of fey wildness to flesh out your game.
- Price: Free
The first Lightning Round this week features gamemaster/DM resources like monsters, maps, random generators, one-page adventures, drop-in encounters, and more. All products are Free or pay what you want with the suggested price in parentheses.
- Leaping Juggernaut (5e CR8 monster) from Gryphon Games (Free)
- The Hanging Garden (Battlemap) from PlanarInk Editions (Free)
- Collapsed Walls & Rubbish Piles (Printable 2d textures to make 3d terrain) from Crooked Staff Publishing ($1.27)
- Giant Mushroom (Printable 2d textures to make 3d terrain) from Eco Fantasy Creations ($1.00)
- Prefabs - Pack 7 (VTT terrain and props) from ForgottenAdventures ($4.99)
- Battle Axe (5e mass combat rules) from Utku Tönel ($1.00)
The second Lightning Round features player resources like classes, subclasses, backgrounds, feats, races/species, and more. All products are Free or pay what you want with the suggested price in parentheses.
- Dhampir & Gutterkin (5e species) from Hanoi Crit Roll ($2.50)
- Cultist Expanded Subclasses (5e subclasses) from Coco’s Homebrew ($0.00)
- The Invoker (5e Warlock subclass) from Yeonggeon Yoo ($0.95)
- The Spell Crucible (5e spell collection) from Riley Clark ($0.50)
- Balaxar’s Business Brochure (5e subclass collection) from Riley Clark ($0.50)
- Oath of Paternity (5e Paladin subclass) from Daniel Johnson (Free)
- Oath of Shelter (5e Paladin subclass) from Gamingbrew (Free)
- Prestige: Spellslinger (5e prestige class) from BiscuitTinRPG ($3.00)
- Prestige: Wyrm Slayer (5e prestige class) from BiscuitTinRPG ($3.00)
- Prestige: Deadeye Marksmen (5e prestige class) from BiscuitTinRPG ($3.00)
Bundles and Sales
Note: I have included end dates when listed for the following sales, but please be warned that those without published end dates may end suddenly so be sure to plan purchases accordingly.
Pre-order bundles are live for the 2024 update to the Dungeons & Dragon 5th Edition core rules. You can pre-order the books from Fantasy Grounds and Roll20 for digital editions and Amazon for the Player’s Handbook, Dungeon Master’s Guide, and Monster Manual for physical hardcovers.
- Price: $29.99 each or $89.97 for digital bundles
Chaosium posted here on EN World about the sale on Call of Cthulhu Horror on the Orient Express. The two-volume hardcover adventure offers 19 scenarios across 700 pages following the investigators from London to Paris to Constantinople complete with a fold-out map of Europe and a PDF edition included for free.
- Price: $59.99 (33% off)
- Note: Only available from the Chaosium webstore
Free League launched the Free League Summer Sale this week with discounts on Dragonbane, The One Ring, Lord of the Rings Roleplaying 5E, Blade Runner, ALIEN, Vaesen, Tales from the Loop, and more.
- Price: Up to 50% off
- End Date: July 1, 2024
It’s KiwiRPG Week and there are currently two bundles collected by Kelly Whyte highlighting the work of RPG creators from New Zealand. The first KiwiRPG Week 2024 bundle is on DriveThruRPG and features over 30 products from original games, system-neutral expansions, an entire adventure path for Traveller, multiple zines, and more.
- Price: $30.00 (79% off)
- End Date: June 30, 2024
- Note: There is some overlap between the two bundles but there are also some products exclusive to one or the other.
The second KiwiRPG Week 2024 bundle is over on Itch.io with 24 products ranging from zines to 5e classes to system-neutral expansions to full RPG systems to solo journaling games to publisher resources and more.
- Price: $15.00 (80% off)
- End Date: June 30, 2024
- Note: There is some overlap between the two bundles but there are also some products exclusive to one or the other.
Charity Bundles and Sales
Itch.io has another of their huge charity bundles, this time organized by Jes the Human, with the TTRPGs for Palestine bundle. The bundle features a whoping 643 items like full RPG rules, mini- and micro-RPGs, solo journaling games, adventures, sourcebooks, optional rules, monster collections, maps, art assets, and probably anything you could possibly want in a TTRPG bundle.
- Price: $10.00
- Charity: Medical Aid for Palestine (all proceeds)
- End Date: June 30, 2024
Over on Bundle of Holding, the sci-fi 5e system Esper Genesis has a bundle from Alligator Alley Entertainment. The Starter Collection includes the Esper Genesis 5E Core Manual, Esper Genesis Master Technician’s Guide with equipment and vehicle rules expansions, and two Esper Genesis Initiate adventures. The Adventure Collection adds on the Esper Genesis Threats Database and ten adventures in the Shadow of the Zephyr series.
- Price: $14.95 (78% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- Charity: Diana Jones Award Emerging Designer Program (10%)
- End Date: July 8, 2024
Goodman Games has a collection of the classic sci-fi RPG Metamorphosis Alpha. The Starter collection includes Metamorphosis Alpha 1e, three sourcebooks, and the adventures Death Ziggurat in Zero-G and Warden Adventures. The Bonus Collection adds up four more Warden Adventures, the campaign setting Epsilon City, and the adventure Doom on the Warden.
- Price: $9.95 (76% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- Charity: San Francisco-Martin Food Bank (10%)
- End Date: June 26, 2024
Catalyst Game Labs has a pair of bundles up for Shadowrun 5th Edition. Yes, this is the previous edition of the game, but it is one that’s still popular with many fans and a lot of Shadowrun content is evergreen or at least useful when playing other editions due to the setting information. The first of these bundles is set to get you ready to go with Shadowrun 5th Edition with the SR5 Essentials Bundle. The base level includes Shadowrun 5e, the player’s guide with additional options Run Faster, and the cyberware sourcebook Chrome Flesh. The Bonus Collection adds on additional “core sourcebooks” with optional rules and equipment that many players consider essential, Run & Gun (guns, armor, and combat), Street Grimoire (magic), Data Trials (hacking), and Rigger 5.0 (vehicles and drones).
- Price: $19.95 (72% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- Charity: Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program (10%)
- End Date: June 24, 2024 FINAL DAY!
The second bundle is the SR5 Missions Bundle with plenty of adventures and full campaigns. The Starter Collection includes the Seattle Sprawl Digital Box Set with information about the setting city of Seattle plus three standalone scenarios and four Missions convention scenarios. The Bonus Collection adds on the big metaplot events of the edition with five SRD CFD campaign sourcebooks (CFD being Cognitive Fragmentation Disorder, a personality disorder caused by nanite that became an epidemic in the 2070s) and a trilogy covering events in thee free city of Denver.
- Price: $19.95 (80% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- Charity: Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program (10%)
- End Date: June 24, 2024 FINAL DAY!
Over on Humble Bundle, the Maps Extravaganza Bundle is back with software tools to help you create your own maps. The first level gives you two map collections and a token collection worth grabbing even if you don’t want to make your own maps. The fun starts with the second tier with a one year license to Campaign Cartographer 3+ along with the book Tome of Ultimate Mapping so you can create your own fantasy maps for personal use or in your published commercial products along with Perspectives 3 software which offers map creation with an isometric perspective. The third tier adds on additional resources like Symbol Set 2: Fantasy Floorplans, Source Maps: Castles, and Source Maps: Temples, Tombs, and Catacombs. The top tier upgrades your Campaign Cartographer 3+ license to lifetime license and also gets you the City Designer 3 and Dungeon Designer 3 software so you have all the tools you need to make any sort of RPG map you can think of.
- Price: $1/$25/variable/$30 (90% off at top tier)
- Charity: Save the Children (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: July 1, 2024
Fans of the Warhammer 40K universe who wants to go deeper into the lore will be pleased with the Worlds of Warhammer 40,000 Bundle from the Black Library. The base level includes eight novels including novels from Dan Arnett, Steve Lyons, Josh Reynolds, and more with the next level adding another eight novels while the top tier ups the total to 27 total books from The Horus Heresy, Age of Sigmar, and more.
- Price: $1/$10/$18 (92% off at top tier)
- Charity: EveryLibrary Institute (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: June 27, 2024
Paizo, Humble, and Fantasy Grounds have extended the Pathfinder’s Finest 2e Fantasy Ground Experience Bundle. The base level of this bundle includes 3 months of Ultimate level access to the Fantasy Grounds along with the VTT packages the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Beginner Box, the adventures Little Trouble in Big Absalom and The Second Confirmation, and three map packs. The second level adds on the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Core Rulebook, Gamemastery Guide, Secrets of Magic, Lost Omens World Guide, and the Lost Omens Ancestry Guide, plus four more map/tile packs and two more adventures. The highest level includes an unlimited, permanent standard license to Fantasy Grounds Unity plus the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Bestiary, Bestiary 2, Lost Omens Character Guide, five more map packs, and the full campaign for Abomination Vaults.
- Price: $10/$20/$30 (96% off at top tier)
- Charity: Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: June 24, 2024 FINAL DAY!
If you’ve been curious about Delta Green, the Lovecraftian RPG that flips the script by giving the players the power to fight back, the Delta Green RPG Collection by Arc Dream Publishing is a perfect introduction. If you’re already a player, the base tier has the Agent Dossiers and Evidence Kit: God’s Teeth with pre-generated characters and hand-outs respectively. The second tier adds on the sourcebooks The Complex, Static Protocol, The Labyrinth, and ARCHINT. If you’re brand new to the game though, the top tier is how you get started with the player’s book Delta Green: Agent’s Handbook, the GM’s book Handler’s Guide, plus a dozen more sourcebooks, adventures, hand-outs, and more making a full library to jump into the world.
- Price: $1/$10/$18 (95% off at top tier)
- Charity: Covenant House (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: June 29, 2024
That’s all for this week! If you know of any bundles or sales starting soon, please contact me on the EN World Discord, tag me on Mastodon, or send me a message here on EN World. Discount percentages have been rounded to the nearest whole number and are based on the standard retail price provided by the site. Note: Links to Amazon, Humble Store, Humble Bundle, Fantasy Grounds, and/or DriveThruRPG may contain affiliate links with the proceeds going to the author of this column.
